Tue, 10 Oct 2006

Poultry consumption, handling are risk factors for antibiotic resistance in humans

Seems like a awful lot of money spent (over a million dollars), but I suppose it's a Good Thing ™ to finally have a controlled study that proves what common sense has been telling us for years.

For the record, my poultry and eggs are 100% antibiotic free.

Antibiotic use as a livestock growth promoter increases the risk of human antibiotic resistance, a Marshfield Clinic researcher and his colleagues have found. Results of the nearly $1.4 million three-year study, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga., are published in the Nov. 1 issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

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On 10/10/2006 19:19:43
lwood wrote

Well, durnit!

On 10/11/2006 10:50:41
Thorolf wrote

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